The Back-Arc is part of an active geologic region that includes the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth. Finding the new vents was “a big breakthrough, a big thrill for everyone,” says ...

Just a stone’s throw from the ocean, indeed.Small family farms dot the southern coast of Tongatapu, the largest island of ...

The Global Hadal Exploration Programme (GHEP), spearheaded by Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) under the ...

Abstract: In this article, commercially 1200-V asymmetric and double trench silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect transistors (mosfets) from two manufacturers are investigated ...

Image by kamchatka via Depositphotos. Stretching along the eastern coast of Russia, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench reaches depths of 10,542 meters. It is part of a subduction zone that extends from Japan ...

The scarcity of detailed mapping means that these vast stretches could hold numerous geological formations and ecosystems yet to be discovered. Mariana-trench. 1840489pavan nd, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

In order to move the "exceptional" and massive rock, the tsunami was likely around 164-feet tall - the height of the Arc de Triomphe.

On the island of Tongatapu, the main island of Tonga, researchers scoured the southern coastline for evidence of violent weather events that occurred thousands of years ago. They were specifically ...